BRT has talked about the Robert's SC on numerous occasions as you, my loyal readers know. From Citizens United to Greece NY, the radical decisions authored by this ideological court in direct oposition to the Constitution and our civil rights, has had no equal since the founding of this once great nation. To further support BRT's argument comes a superb Linda Greenhouse NYTimesarticle titled Polar Vision.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

BRT has talked about Geckos, small lizards able to climb just about anything using molecular adhesion at atomic level (via van der Waal forces) to attain great "stickiness" yet permitting easy release from same when said gecko moves on to snag another fly. With this knowledge in hand, really smart people from US Mass/Amherst will be introducing a radical new product called Geckskin once they get the manufacturing part down. For yours truly, I can't wait to use this product.

Not to gloat but BRT did say fracking was a short term solution to a long term problem, a fact big oil is unwilling to admit even though the predicted shale boom for CA is now a bust with more bad news to follow as fracking wells don't last very long due to the fact natural gas is just that, a gas, something evanescent, something totally different from the sweet crude gushers that issued forth from Texas back in the day.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

What's interesting here is the fact our for profit medical system pays big bucks to non-doctors in the HC system we all love and cherish, something to consider when you go to your doctor to get a check up or to get a live saving and exquisitely delicate operation requiring a skilled set of hands to the max to do the deed.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

When looking at this photograph of a cornfield in Nebraska, one is struck by the sheer size of the landscape in question, where the sky seems to extend to forever and simple breaks in the horizon attain a significance in ways impossible to imagine outside of a place such as this. Now imagine this place poisoned, where nothing grows and restoration to it's former state is simply not possible due to the kind of product Keytone XL will ship to Texas refineries if the pipeline comes to pass.

The net should be a public utility, forever neutral, where all bits are created equal and not sliced up into preferred bits vs unpreferred bits based on monies paid to a given ISP by a content provider in order to juice up bit speed in delivering content to people able to pay the extra fees in order to get said content at faster rates at the expense of smaller entities like BRT, a situation that, in time, would wreak havoc on a chaotic and bit neutral system that works due to the universally agreed upon and applied open standards protocols defining how the net functions as a communications construct for the world. If a two tiered system becomes the norm, the underlying tech would eventually be compromised as the big players would develop, in effect, proprietary methodologies to improve their net speeds while the rest of the web would devolve into an afterthought because of the eventual elimination of the universal application of OS technology that keeps all bits equal on today's internet, the most complex communication system every designed by man.

With this in mind, the net should become a public utility, forever allowed to run without the Wheelers of the world trying to game the system with Orwellian weasel words akin to how politicians defend the indefensable with turgid and abstract prose designed to confuse and disguise the real intentions of the enterprise that is committing the indefensible, something Orwell knew all to well when writing Politics and the English Language.

Interesting enough, Netflix, the larges content provider on the net, wants Net Neutrality big time as they realize what would happen if the Verizon's of the world got their way.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

This Dilbert's funny yet indirectly foreboding when looked at from the perspective of just how much our civil rights are being systematically violated by the powers at be in this once great nation, a situation that's becoming ever more dangerous from this writer's perspective.

Friday, May 09, 2014

Elegant, affordable tech, able to transform the world with grace and common sense, is the ultimate in industrial design as seen in the Drinkable Book from Waterislife.com a water filtration system in a form factor for the ages.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

I'm really glad that 5 Supremes decided, amongst themselves, to trash the Constitution regarding the separation of church and state as written in the 1st Amendment, something the Founding Fathers were adamant about as they knew just how catastrophic injecting religion into politics could become whether the religion in question be christian, islamic, jewish, hindu or whatever as the specific religion in question doesn't matter save for the fact said religion will eventually impact the government in ways that negatively impact anyone who's not a believer in that chosen religion or anyone who doesn't believe in a god at all, a philosphy Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Paine and Madison, among significant others, related to without issue.

Words cannot describe just how partisan and inept this court truly is. Jefferson, Hamilton, Washington, et al, are rolling in their graves in seeing how these small minded "politicians" made a ruling (The Town of Greece, NY vs. Galloway) even more atrocious then Citizens United & McCutcheon as this "masterpiece" violates the core essence of the Constitution of America, the Bill of Rights.

Thursday, May 01, 2014

What the Supremes did regarding Citizens United and McCutcheon, is now coming back to haunt us big time. Unbridled money corrupts, something Judge Paul A. Crotty, SDNY Federal District Court Justice, knows all too well in having to reluctantly abide by these atrocious rulings by a court less then Supreme in every sense of the word.

Click hereto read his heartfelt opinion. Who knows, maybe Roberts and the gang of 5 might learn something from somebody who really does understand the letter of the law but then again, knowing how this version of the SC operates, I wouldn't make book on it in any way shape or fashion.